CVE-2013-4292

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-08-29
Bugzilla:
1002666: CVE-2013-4292 libvirt: unbounded RPC arrays in remote protocol

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

libvirt 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of domain migrate parameters in certain RPC calls in (1) daemon/remote.c and (2) remote/remote_driver.c.

Find out more about CVE-2013-4292 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of libvirt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as they did not ship the vulnerable version.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libvirt Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libvirt Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libvirt Not affected

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